Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Knockadoon (warren), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadoon (warren)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87049, -7.94871
- SMR number
- CO078-033----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Sub-circular platform (21m E-W; 20.5m N-S) on W side of stream gully, above clay cliffs. Westropp (1921, 109-110) describes 'curved fosse' to N and W through which laneway runs to rockey shore. Fosse eroded away on W side; enlarged on N side cutting into interior, landward side stone-faced. Interior level; summer house (wooden) at centre. According to local information fosse to N enlarged when house built c. 20-30 years ago; locally known as 'the lios'. Westropp (ibid) met an old man who heard it called 'the Doon' in his boyhood.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.